On the Road and Airport Hotels
Traveling around the world is as romantic as it ever was. There are times when getting caught up in the hassle of itineraries and baggage control starts to overwhelm the adventure, but there’s always the ghosts of the last century hanging around, those images of the young lovers caught up in international intrigue, or explorers going on adventures to save the world. Sometimes it’s even possible to remember that the kinds of travel we indulge in today were just dreams for our ancestors, and one or two generations ago it was simply impossible. It’s especially possible to remember these things when there’s some attention to detail, and to the niceties of earlier times, and a stay in an airport hotel can have all the graciousness and hospitality of another time.
This is how we select our hotels, so that you’ll have the best of yesteryear with all the convenience of today, so that you can catch your connection, and make the next meeting with all the contemporary technologies. But there is also that certain romantic spirit present, to remind you that you’re always on a new adventure, and you deserve elegance and splendor right here. You can dream about your next trip if the mood is exactly right, and you might start to wonder about the famous writers who made their careers by traveling the world. Ernest Hemingway based many of his exquisite novels on his travels in Spain and Africa, and Mark Twain got source material for a lot of his humorous and biting work on the problems with everything in general in his time.
There is a long history for this kind of writing, which does give a good deal of weight to the myth of the world traveler. Even the crazed and brilliant Hunter S. Thompson wrote about his experiences writing for sports magazines and Rolling Stone while traveling to see great sporting events and elections. His style came, in part, from the work of that other traveler, Jack Kerouac, whose writings have inspired generations. It doesn’t matter which century you’re looking at, because the notion of a well-traveled individual has currency in all times, and in all cultures. It’s a way of conceiving the airport as just another gateway to another fantastic journey.
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